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Do you think a community like r/TrueChristian or r/AskAChristian would be welcome on lemmy.world? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by vaseltarp to c/asklemmy

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I don't know any true Christians who are MAGA or racists or even bigots. But with the commonly used definition that if someone says something is bad they automatically are seen as hating the people doing it many people arguing in communities like that would be called haters or bigots and possibly be banned here on lemmy.world. Even though most true Christians don't like MAGA and hardline rights they might feel the need to create communities like r/TrueChristian oad r/AskAChristian on exploding-heads.com or similar servers because they might think that their opinions are tolerated there. What do you think?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Most teachings of Christianity are leftist and teach love, while many/most vocal American Christians choose to most Christian teaching and instead use out-of-context quotes to bash vulnerable populations.

Telling somebody "you live a life of sin" or "hate the sin love the sinner" is abusive even if it's couched in friendliness. (This is bigotry, even if they think they're good people, even if they don't "hurt" the people they're calling sinners)

I don't think many people would be opposed to a community that agrees with this version of Christianity. I would push to defederates from any instance that has a large population of "prosperity gospel" or far-right Christians (choosing a friendly instance is a great draw of the fediverse).

(I was raised in an inclusive church then parents switched to a bad church - I'm agnostic now)

Edit: reading through the comments, it's pretty apparent that this user wants more of a free speech space and is baiting people to say no (e.g. "but what if the Bible teaches , it's just a fact"). Christianity is so old and its history is so much more complex than just regurgitating the King James Version - I would be against a Christian community without any historical nuance.